Every new piece of information gives us new ideas and directions to follow — ‘Exploring 
the Illusion of Free Will’ through the 
Internet Archive

Search trails are a series of web pages starting with a search query and terminating with an event such as session inactivity. The idea of visualizing a user’s journey through the web is by no means a new one. The goal in this project is to construct not only a window into digitally archived content but a narrative of the user's activity inside a digital archive. Collect, organize and present information in the form of an annotated narrative that can be consumed both online and offline. Both digital and printed results intend to highlight the quantity and complexity of information attached to one specific topic, underline where each exploration diverges.

This publication is proposing a window into digitally archived content while exploring a user's search trail inside the Internet Archive.

The publication is available on Slides

http://slides.com/franciscamonteiro/searchtrails#/

A print-on-demand version is published via Lulu

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